Apparently, as far as is known, the basalt flood eruptions that took place 250 million years ago in what is now Siberia, causing global changes in climate because of which almost all life on Earth died, were unique in Earth's history. Nothing like them have occurred since, and nothing like them -- as far as we know -- occurred before them. So ( Read more... )

Around 66 million years ago, an object some six miles in diameter impacted Earth in what is now the Yucatan. Not only did the kinetic energy of the impact itself cause great fires in southern North America and northern South America, but the blowback from that event in the form of debris kicked up by the impact falling back to Earth liberated even ( Read more... )

What They Created Using Just Magnets And Marbles Will Leave You Hypnotized

Jacuzzi of Despair

Unforgettable images, unbelievable objects

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It’s no secret that Detroit has been hit very hard by the recession. But did you know that at one time, ( Read more... )

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In the 1980s, paleontologists and other scientists put together an elegant scenario accounting for the enormous mass extinction that took place at the end of the Cretaceous Period of the Mesozoic Era. That scenario entailed the following events ( Read more... )

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Some very surprising answers to that question.

For some reason, nobody seems to have seriously considered the idea that Earthly creatures other than Home sapiens, including Homo sapiens sapiens and Homo sapiens neanderthalis, might have been technologically and culturally sophisticated beings. Proponents of extraterrestrial civilizations have SETI (the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence ( Read more... )

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